In a return to my favourite “audience drawing” topic, the Nine Network is moving ahead with a new Underbelly series, to be shot imminently and…
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Twenty-five years ago, something nearly happened that, if it didn’t kill us all, would have seriously ruined, well, everything. Thank you Stanislav Petrov for defying…
Leave a CommentPaul Newman died today, as you’ve no doubt read. A great actor, philanthropist and racing driver/manager. I’ll admit that this is his most famous role:…
Leave a CommentIt feels odd that I haven’t done a full 40-hour week for a long time, it seems. Certainly not more than a few in the…
Leave a CommentWith the Large Hadron Collider opening up at CERN in Switzerland this week, and the attendant media idiocy over whether this will mean “the end…
Leave a CommentThis is about World Youth Day, something that as a Sydneysider has been hard to ignore recently. I’ll say up front that I’m not religious…
Leave a CommentAnother year, and oddly enough, another loss for New South Wales in the State of Origin series. We go down 2-1 again. We lose because…
Leave a CommentI’ve sort of known this for a while, but part of building yourself (or your writing, music, whatever) as a popular brand and successful business,…
Leave a CommentFirst picked up on this news last night on John Scalzi’s site — it’s a little disconcerting when you read something big on a blog…
Leave a CommentNow this is on the spot journalism … from an amateur, of course: From the New York Times blog and repeated at a few other…
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